You don’t often get to see that—three of the country’s best guitarists playing together on the same stage.

Well, that’s what happened at the Liquid Bar at Busy Internet in Accra last Sunday evening when Ebo Taylor, George Darko and Kari Bannerman jammed away at a session that any serious lover of contemporary Ghanaian popular music should not have missed.

Unfortunately, it was an invitation-only affair and the audience was small but they thoroughly enjoyed the fusion of highlife, jazz, funk and rock that flowed from the guitarists during the two-hour propramme.

Ebo Taylor who turned 70 this year, was the first to come on backed by George Darko’s band. He eloquently displayed his mastery of the the Yaa Amponsah guitar style with the sidemen who could all be his granchildren.

George Darko was into his second song, a jazzy version of Lady In Red, when Bannerman joined in with some embellishment.

They ran through a couple of jazz-funk pieces after that before Taylor came back on stage for the three stringmasters to display their dexterity at improvisation.

Bannerman told the audience it was a privilege to feature with Taylor because he used to run away from school at Mfantsipim to watch him play in the 1960s.

The guitarists paid tribute to drummer Ghanaba with a re-arrangement of his Happy Feeling song by Bannerman.

Each guitarist has his forte and the keen listener could discern Bannerman's inclination towards rock, Taylor's highlife roots and Darko's strong funk leanings.

Singer, Pauline Oduro and hiplifer, Obuor were around and did a song each but the night was really for the three good guitarists who must get together again at a well-publicized public performance in the future.

The music was actually the dessert after a ‘conversation’ convened by Dr. Amos Anyimadu on behalf of AfricaTalks.org to mark International Human Rights Day and Save Darfur Day which both fell on December 10.

BBC correspondent, Kwaku Sakyi-Addo, spoke on ‘A Personal Appreciation of Kofi Annan and Darfur’.

Dr Linda Darkwah of the Legon Centre for International Affairs (LECIA), treated ‘Humanitarian Intervention in Today’s World’ and Dr. Anyimadu handled ‘Africa in the Struggle to Save Darfur.’

It was a lively and enlightening small-group discussion that should have benefitted a bigger audience, just like the music session.